Care tips for your pergola

There are many factors that can contribute to a pergola that is looking worse for wear. From vines that are strangulating to over grown shrubbery your pergola is subject to the plants in and around your out door area as they grow and become more established.
Environmental factors can also add to the lack lustre appearance of your pergola and affect the materials on your structure.Extended bouts of wet weather can bring about mould or moss. Long dry summers can stress and deplete paint and timber.

Aside from factors that are not of your doing, things like deteriorating furniture and paint and dirty posts and floor coverings can also make your pergola become an unpleasant place to be.

Caring for your pergola should be on the list of things to around the house when it comes to property maintenance.
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Veranda, pergola or patio? What’s best for your home?

If you love being outdoors but don’t like to be exposed to the weather, and you are in a position to renovate or add value to your home, then you might be wondering what to build; a veranda, patio or pergola. You might also be wondering what the difference is between the three.

A veranda has the following features;

• is always a permanent structure
• is always attached the house and may wrap around several faces of the house
• is always made of durable, strong materials
• is always covered
• the roof can be fixed or retractable

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5 Reasons why you need a pergola on your property

There are many reasons why installing a pergola or veranda will not only improve your lifestyle but also increase the value of your home.
The right pergola will add style and finish to your home and give your property a more complete setting within the landscape surrounding your home.

Increase the Value of your Property
Weather it’s a suburban oasis or a sprawling country style verandah, adding an outdoor structure will add value to your property. By installing a pergola or patio you are effectively increasing the floor space of your home. As the popularity ‘outdoor room’ gains momentum, a pergola will give your home the edge over a property that has not yet taken advantage of the extra space and comfort that an outdoor area can provide.
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5 Reasons Why Home Pergola Adds Value To Your Property

Enhance the outdoor living space of your property by adding a home pergola. Whether a pergola is an extension of the existing veranda or a stand alone structure in the back yard the addition will also bring years of enjoyment.

The costs can be kept to a minimum by adding some finer touches and special features. The more you do to your home or yard to improve its appeal means added value to your property.
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5 Reasons Why Stratco Pergolas Add Value To Your Property

With so much advice and information available these days on how to improve the value of your property it is well worth taking a look at your outdoor entertaining area. The addition of a pergola can transform any back yard with style and sophistication adding value to your property as well as creating an inviting entertainment area for your friends and family.

Stratco pergolas are well known in Australia and stand the test of time in such a harsh climate.
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6 Handy Hints For Building Pergolas

Before you can get to work on your new building project there are some finer points to be taken into consideration. Some of your initial decisions might be whether you take on the building yourself or need to contract someone else and if it’s feasible to attach the pergola to your veranda or make it freestanding.
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Pools, Parties and Patios – The Great Aussie Outdoors

Nothing says “Welcome to the big Aussie back yard” quite like a barbecue by the pool for friends and family. Oh, and don’t forget the can of Aerogard!

Australia is a vast, sparsely populated land with plenty of room for the traditional home; complete with large back yard, a Hills Hoist clothesline and all the accessories needed to take advantage of our great weather.

And for most Australians, a house wouldn’t be a home without the traditional shady patio. From chic inner-city terraces to grand outback homesteads, a pergola either encircling the house or attached to one of the walls is an integral part of our cultural landscape.
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Outdoor Pergolas – Create A Shady Oasis

Although lifestyle studies are conclusively proving that we are spending more time at work, they are also suggesting that we are using our recreation time more productively, which has to be a good thing.

One of the building trends that lends itself well to our increasing desire to enjoy our leisure activities with greater gusto is the outdoor pergola.

From architecturally designed entertaining rooms that flow from the indoors out to a hastily constructed patio, it seems that no matter what our budget allows, we all want to capture the essence of the great outdoors.
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Stratco Outback Verandas – A Stylish Home Patio

Most Australians have grown up with pleasant images of a graceful country homestead surrounded by a shady veranda where dusty farmers once kicked off their boots and relaxed with a cold beer after a hard day’s work. Sound familiar?

These wide, shade filled verandas are an integral part of the Australian landscape and are seen on as many homes today as they were in the days of our ancestors.

The reason why they remain such a popular design feature in modern homes is easy: outdoor verandas or covered pergolas are easy to erect, they create a wonderful, relaxed outdoor environment for casual entertaining and they provide welcome shade from the harsh summer sun.
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Building A Patio – 10 Time Saving Tips

Creating an outdoor patio is one of the best investments you can make in your family’s lifestyle.

Building a patio is a job you can make as simple or as complex as you like, depending on what type of materials you use and how ornate you want it to be.

So let’s assume you know how to hold a hammer and what a nail looks like and go from there. Here are 10 of the top time and labour saving tips you can use to build a patio you’ll be proud to show off.
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